It's been a fun year for my Knicks.They came out of the gate firing, winning eighteen of their first twenty-three games. The comeback of point guard Raymond Felton, like the dude's rug, seemed to tie the room together. His dynamism and his ability to penetrate the perimeter stretched the floor enough, so that Carmelo Anthony, J.R Smith and role players like Steve Novak and Chris Copeland could just fire away without thinking twice. Felton himself proved to be an efficient outside shooter.
But Felton got hurt right before New Year and things started getting out of synch. The Knicks became streaky, capable of the best and the worst on court. Sometimes during the same game. General Manager Glen Grunwald's decision to hire so many players between thirty and forty years old looked absolutely brilliant at the start of the year, but it started showing its limitations after the all-star break as players started coming down with injuries and left Grunwald scrambling to patch the holes in his lineup. The Knicks lucked out when they hired Kenyon Martin after the trade deadline, but that was the last good management move of the season.
We got booted from the playoffs in round 2, by the Indiana Pacers. I'm actually happy we made it this far, which hadn't happened for a decade and a half or so. It was evident the Pacers were the bigger, younger, more cohesive team at the series went along and that Mike Woodson got painfully outcoached by Frank Vogel. Like I said, no big deal. We have something to build on. There are things that work well with the team, other that need improvement. Here are five suggestions for my dear New York Knicks' off season.
But Felton got hurt right before New Year and things started getting out of synch. The Knicks became streaky, capable of the best and the worst on court. Sometimes during the same game. General Manager Glen Grunwald's decision to hire so many players between thirty and forty years old looked absolutely brilliant at the start of the year, but it started showing its limitations after the all-star break as players started coming down with injuries and left Grunwald scrambling to patch the holes in his lineup. The Knicks lucked out when they hired Kenyon Martin after the trade deadline, but that was the last good management move of the season.
We got booted from the playoffs in round 2, by the Indiana Pacers. I'm actually happy we made it this far, which hadn't happened for a decade and a half or so. It was evident the Pacers were the bigger, younger, more cohesive team at the series went along and that Mike Woodson got painfully outcoached by Frank Vogel. Like I said, no big deal. We have something to build on. There are things that work well with the team, other that need improvement. Here are five suggestions for my dear New York Knicks' off season.
